[...] pastors of some of the more conservative congregations- including St. Mary's in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown- held the collection but only after informing their parishioners of the controversy and suggesting alternate causes they might support instead. Last summer the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued a report arguing ACORN should forfeit its tax-exempt status because it illegally spends taxpayer dollars on partisan activities, commits "systemic fraud," and violates racketeering and election laws.
[William Monroe Trotter, Jr.]'s needs and aspirations were different than [Booker T. Washington]'s, especially on the issue of education, where Trotter, a Harvard man, believed that blacks should learn the classics instead of learning only about vocational trades and agriculture, as Washington argued. For nearly two years Trotter openly attacked Washington in the pages of , and his upcoming speech in Boston provided Trotter a rare chance to confront Washington directly. "The policy of compromise has failed," Trotter wrote. "The policy of resistance and aggression deserves a trial. Historians paint a chaotic scene: radicals hissing and booing at Washington while others hissed and booed amid shouts of "Throw Trotter out the window." For his part, Trotter stood on a chair and ...
A state report on the July 5 flash fire at Guardian Automotive Trim details the fear and confusion that immediately followed the incident. Two workers, Matthew Sorenson and Teresa Torres, were injured in the blaze.
[William Monroe Trotter] wasn't one of them. He had his own money and his own politics and he used both to help start die "Guardian," a weekly newspaper. Its mission, Trotter wrote, was to serve as "an organ which is to voice intelligently the needs and aspirations of the colored American. For nearly two years Trotter openly attacked [Booker T. Washington] in die pages of the "Guardian," and his upcoming speech in Boston provided Trotter a rare chance to confront Washington direcdy. "The policy of compromise has failed," Trotter wrote. "The policy of resistance and aggression deserves a trial." In view of die fact diat you are understood to be unwilling to insist upon the Negro having his every right (bom civil and political), would it not be a calamity at this juncture to make you ou...
More than a decade after acquiring one of the area's oldest publications, members of the Dolan family have sold their hometown newspaper, the more-than-a-century-old Oyster Bay Guardian, to Richner Communications. Charles Dolan is best known as the former CEO and now chairman of Cablevision Systems, which recently went into the publishing business on a large scale by acquiring Newsday for $650 million.
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